Ukraine’s Defense Ministry changed the military conscription rules to allow enlistment of people diagnosed with mild mental disorders and other illnesses.
From now on, people “with mild and brief manifestations of mental, neurotic or stress-related disorders” will be considered eligible, according to the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform.
“Individuals with slowly progressive central nervous system diseases, with minor functional impairments, with episodic and paroxysmal disorders other than epilepsy, or with minor impairments of organ and system functions” will also be recruited.
The order also indicates that recruits “with clinically cured tuberculosis and residual sequelae, asymptomatic carriers of HIV, to be determined individually, and other people with slowly progressive diseases” are eligible.
According to the new rules, people with minor disorders of endocrine system functions or minor disorders of eating behavior or metabolism may also be recruited.
A British services report released by the Defense Ministry today revealed that Russia encouraged the recruitment of citizens from neighboring countries to fight in Ukraine, attributing these efforts to an attempt to avoid the political effects of a mobilization.
“Russia probably wants to avoid unpopular mobilization measures in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election,” British experts say in the daily report on the conflict, published by the Defense Ministry.
Russian authorities placed internet ads in Armenia and Kazakhstan, offering 495,000 rubles (4,800 euros at current exchange rates) as a down payment and a salary of 190,000 rubles (1,800 euros), they said.
In the case of Kazakhstan, there were targeted recruitment efforts in the Kostanai region, with appeals to the ethnic Russian population.
Source: TSF
